On Bathos

Literature, Art, Music

AvSara Crangle,Peter Nicholls

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2010

679 kr

Läs direkt i Bokus Reader – eller ladda ned till din enhet (PDF kräver ofta zoom och scroll på små skärmar).

Beskrivning

While the sublime has garnered a great deal of critical attention over the past twenty years, its counterpart, bathos, has yet to receive any extended treatment. Generally understood as an inadvertent descent to the low, vulgar, and ludicrous in writing or art, the term "bathos" was popularised by Pope, who used it to satirise his contemporaries. Ironically likening bathos to the depths of profundity, Pope lauded his peers for their influential writings whilst openly deriding their absurd misuses of figure and rhetorical device. Pope's method proved prophetic: today, artists regularly celebrate and incorporate bathetic practice. This essay collection considers how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music. The innovative and diverse contributions assess the consequences of this endemic inversion of aesthetic standards, and consider where artistic production might go after hitting, and so comfortably inhabiting, rock bottom.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-07-22
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441160829
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Sara Crangle is a Lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK, and the author of Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowing, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh UP). PETER NICHOLLS is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of The Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.

Recensioner i media

"We think we know what bathos is and how to judge it. This fascinating collection of essays shows just how mistaken we have been. Bathos is a concept that productively unsettles many existing concepts of reception, interpretation, literary value, affect, and ideology. With scholarly wit and a highly readable awareness of the potential bathos of commentary, these essays explore the origins of the idea and its contribution to modern culture, in a compelling series of close readings of both familiar and surprising manifestations in art, poetry, fiction, and music. At the risk of a bathetic blurb, a risk that these poets and scholars suggest is almost unavoidable, I will say that this is an essential volume for anyone wishing to follow current developments in the literary and cultural study of the highs and lows of modern arts."

Innehållsförteckning

On Bathos: Introduction, Peter Nicoholls and Sara Crangle (New York University, USA and University of Sussex, UK) 2. What is Bathos?, Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex, UK) 3. Dada is Bathos! Or: of the the hobbyhorse endlessly rocking, Sara Crangle (University of Sussex, UK) 4. The Strings are False: Bathos, Pastoral, and Social Reflexivity in 1930s British Poetry, Tyrus Miller5. Jim the Jerk: Bathos and Loveliness in the Poetry of James Schuyler, John Wilkinson (University of Notre Dame, USA) 6. She Disappeared into Unhappy Consciousness: Louise Bourgeois and the Bathos of Surrealism, Doug Haynes (University of Sussex, UK) 7. Cultures of Musical Failures, Francesca Brittan (University of Cambridge, UK) 8. Bathos and Mind-reading, Bob Perelman (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 9. Low Resistance, Martin Crowley (University of Cambridge, UK) 10. Kallos anti-Bathos? (From Calle to Freud, Lacan, and back), Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Index